...Abdelraouf Mostafa Galal Purpose This paper aims to examine the hypotheses of main international theories (realism, liberalism and constructivism) and the development of these theories toward the behavior of foreign policy of small states in the developing world. The theories of international...

... are and they tell you who others are” (Hopf, 1998 , p. 174). Constructivists argue that the recognition of the “other” is essential to constitute the identity of “self” (Greenhill, 2008 , p. 343). Constructivism treats the issue of identity as an empirical question to be analyzed within a historical context (Hopf...